TAKING DOWN THE GENNAKER:
NEVER sail with gennaker without the mainsail!!!!!
Taking down the spinnaker is always easy – even in stronger winds if you follow this process.
Bear off to a downwind course and secure the mainsail with the preventer, now pull the
active spinnaker sheet in tight so the spinnaker clew is close to the mainsail boom – this is
very important.
Now slacken and release the tack line completely off. The spinnaker will now fly back behind
the mainsail like a flag, and the vacuum behind the mainsail will “hold” the spinnaker behind
the mainsail, even also in stronger winds, the spinnaker will find the wind "shadow" behind
the mainsail. Now you can easily pull down the spinnaker sock. Make sure to stow away the
spinnaker and all lines, before you furl out the genoa again and before you change up into a
higher course closer to the wind.
CODE-0 :
The Code-0 furling system (tack) must NOT be installed at the end of the bowsprit using the
tack line!!! This will cause the bowsprit to brake.
The Code-0 must only be installed on the steel eye on the upper side of the bowsprit on the
same stainless fitting that supports the bowsprit sideways and down to the bow.
This means you have to install the Code-0 sail and furler, before you fold out the bowsprit.
You can use this sail upwind, but with a lower tacking angle of 55 degrees, and when tacking
you have to furl at least half or 2/3 of the sail and then furl it out again on the new course.
Always go downwind when furling the sail in. Always make sure to fix the furling line for the
endless furling system as the sail will furl out again by itself, just put the furling line just one
time around the forward mooring cleat or even easier just put it one time around the
forward stainless lifting eye by the backend of the pulpit- that’s all it takes normally to lock
the sail.
For better furling, always try to furl the sail in the same direction – the special torsion line in
the luff gets stiffer and better this way.
NEVER use the Code-0 upwind in more than max 8 knots of true wind.
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